What is the relationship between economic reform and urbanization in China, India, and Latin America? How were reforms implemented differently? Give two examples of how cities in any of these countries were transformed through economic integration with the global economy.

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“Maquilapolis” and “The Chinese Mayor”

Answer ALL of the following questions with a roughly 200-300 word answer for EACH.

1. What is informality? Give at least 2 explanations for its predominance in Developing World cities. Drawing directly on films shown in class discuss how leaders take different policy responses to the urban poor and how the urban poor push back in Mexico, South Africa, and China.

2. European colonialism profoundly shaped urban geographies & urban systems across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Discuss at least two ways in which European colonialism set patterns for urban geographies and urban systems in these regions.

3. Discuss at least 2 ways gender roles and relations are being transformed through processes of globalization.

4. Drawing on material from the Global South (Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East) discuss at least 2 different specific ways various forms of migration and mobility are important to or are reshaping global cities.

5. What is the relationship between economic reform and urbanization in China, India, and Latin America? How were reforms implemented differently? Give two examples of how cities in any of these countries were transformed through economic integration with the global economy.

Select a news article focused on an event or issue related to a topic covered in this course. Write a brief summary of the article and discuss connections between course material and the content of your selected article.

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News Article Assignment

For our fourth discussion forum, select a news article focused on an event or issue related to a topic covered in this course. You will then write a brief summary of the article and discuss connections between course material and the content of your selected article. Choose your article from one of the sites below:

  • BBC World News
  • BBC News: Science & Environment
  • Reuters World News
  • AP International News
  • Science Daily: Environment
  • Science Daily: Society
  • Nature
  • Mongabay News

After reading and reflecting on your selected article, click on the “News Article” heading to enter the forum and create a new thread that includes these three elements:
• The title and link to your selected article
• A substantive, one-paragraph summary of the article
• A substantive paragraph addressing the following questions:
o To which of the twelve world regions does this article relate (or is it global in scope)?
o To which topic(s) covered in World Geography does this article relate?

Briefly discuss specific connections between course material and the content of your selected article.
The total length of your article summary and discussion of its connections with course material should be 250-350 words. In your summary, please make sure to paraphrase information from the article in order to avoid plagiarism. Since this is a brief, one-paragraph summary, do not include direct quotes from the article. Once you have completed your original post, spend some time reading your classmates’ posts and select one thread to comment on. Read the article upon which the thread was based. Then click “Reply” and write a thoughtful one-paragraph response
consisting of a commentary on the article and/or the original discussion post. Remember to avoid any disrespectful or inappropriate language. Your reply should be approximately 75-125 words in length.

What were the major findings of the study as they relate to the main research questions? Were there any caveats to the answers? What new questions resulted from the research? What are the management or policy implications?

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Climate change impacts on San Diego hydrology & water quality

The final draft of your project describes the research you did in a formal report. The project is based on the Topic Proposal, and will

1) provide motivation for the topic (why is this important?),

2) articulate research question(s) (RQs) related to the topic;

3) describe methods used by the student (data analysis paper) or by others (literature review paper) to answer the research question(s) and

4) tell how those methods answered or addressed the research questions(s).

See the Topic Proposal description for more on the Motivation and Research Question.

Methods.
Description of the Methods should include enough detail that the reader can describe for themselves how the student or authors addressed a research question, including, for example, what models or measurements were used, and the geographic location/region and time period of analysis. The student must strike a reasonable balance between too little and too much detail–for example, for routine analysis of water quality, the make and model of the machines used in the analysis may not be necessary, but the types of analysis performed, when samples were collected from where, etc, are essential.

Answer or address the RQs.
What were the major findings of the study as they relate to the main research questions? Were there any caveats to the answers? What new questions resulted from the research? What are the management or policy implications?
Tables and figures will likely play a role in answering the question.
Check to make sure that the answer you provide answers or addresses the stated research questions.

Frequently asked questions:

Q: Can the topic and/or RQs in the Final Draft differ from the Topic Proposal?

A: Yes. It is likely that the RQs will change once you have done more research. You’ll want to check with the Instructor to make sure the RQs are good ones.

What is the title of the article? What is the article about? Why did you learn about India from the article?

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India

It can be any reliable article online.

What is the title of the article? (5 points)
What is the article’s URL ( www.?) – (5 points)
What is the article about? (15 points)
Why did you learn about India from the article? (25 points)

Explain what would happen to the air temperature of the Earth if the Arctic sea ice continues to melt at a rapid rate. Discuss in terms of the Earth’s energy budget, changes in shortwave and longwave energy, and average albedo.

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Real World Assignment 1

Explain what would happen to the air temperature (not ocean temperature) of the Earth if the Arctic sea ice continues to melt at a rapid rate. Discuss in terms of the Earth’s energy budget, changes in shortwave and longwave energy, and average albedo (see Chapters 4 and 5).

textbook link
https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Geography_(Physical)/The_Physical_Environment_(Ritter)

You must use at least two reputable online sources (one can be the textbook) to help explain your answer (you cannot use Wikipedia). You must site the sources with at least the website link, author, and date (no formal citation method is needed).

Your answer must be at least 2 paragraphs, at least 5 sentences each paragraph, and free of spelling and grammar errors.

What is the most promising location to find this extremophile on Earth? Why? What is the most promising location to find this extremophile on another planet or moon?

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Assignment 2: Promising Lifeforms in Extreme Environments

Our solar system contains many interesting regions to host extra-terrestrial life. For this assignment you are to choose a particular type of extremophile and answer the following questions.

Follow the following format (exactly) for your assignment. Assignments not in this format may not be graded.

  1. What is the most promising location to find this extremophile on Earth? Why? ( 50 words)
  2. What is the most promising location to find this extremophile on another planet or moon? ( 50 words)
  3. Describe how these extremophiles would survive in the habitat of the planet or moon that you chose. (about 100 words)
  4. Provide evidence we have from Earth about how these types of organisms can adapt to extreme conditions. (about 100 words)

Your assignment should  USE AT LEAST 2 SOURCES PUBLISHED SINCE JANUARY 2022. You may use any established academic format for citations (e.g. MLA, APA), but they should be consistent and complete.

 

What is Mayor Geng’s vision for Datong and what does the project entail? What cultural amenities does Datong possess? How do citizens of the old city communicate with government to make their complaints?

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The Chinese Mayor

Watch the documentary ”The Chinese Mayor”. In your discussion post briefly answer all of the following questions:

1. What is Mayor Geng’s vision for Datong and what does the project entail?

2. What cultural amenities does Datong possess?

3. How do citizens of the old city communicate with government to make their complaints?

4. How does the mayor respond? Why are many told that there’s nothing that can be done for them?

5. How does Mayor Geng get re-elected? What is the process?

6. What happens to Ying’s home?

7. How many households are demolished during Geng’s term?

8. What seems to be the relationship between politicians’ ambition and urban projects?

9. What happens to Mayor Geng and his Datong project? How do townspeople react?

10. Making reference to the short videos in this week’s modules, evaluate what you see as the fate of the urban poor in contemporary, “booming” China.

What aspect of culture is the site about? What did you learn from the site about the way people live in the country?

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Internet Activity #3 (The Middle East and North Africa)

One of the learning outcomes stated in the syllabus is for you to “locate significant geographic features of regions of the world and describe their cultural, economic, political, and physical characteristics.”
Geography consists of two main branches: physical geography and human geography. This assignment, which is about the cultural aspects of countries in the Middle East and North Africa, is related to human geography . Countries, which are part of larger areas defined by humans as regions, are “significant geographic features of regions of the world.”
This is a MANDATORY assignment worth 50 points. Go to a search engine (www.google.com, for example) and select four Web sites, each related to the culture (food, religion, language, clothing, etc.) of a different country in the Middle East and North Africa region. Briefly (one paragraph per site) summarize each of the sites. Click here for an example of a site related to culture.
Use the Middle East and North Africa map below (or go to https://www.worldatlas.com/ ) to select four different countries from the region. Remember, there should be four different paragraphs, each on the culture of a different country. For example, if you choose Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia, you should write one paragraph on the culture of Egypt; one paragraph on the culture of Israel; one paragraph on the culture of Lebanon; and one paragraph on the culture of Saudi Arabia.

Answer the following questions in each summary:
(The point value of each question is listed below.)
What aspect of culture (food, religion, language, clothing, customs, etc.) is the site about? (20 points)
What did you learn from the site about the way people live in the country? (20 points)
What is the URL (www.?) of the site? (10 points)
List the URL (www.?) of the site at the bottom of each paragraph.
Submit this assignment as a Text Submission. Refer to the Course Schedule for the due date for this assignment.

Write a 2-3 paragraph response on the factors that led to Europe’s global dominance in economic and political affairs? What impacts did that dominance have on other peoples and environments?

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Europe’s global dominance in economic and political affairs

Write a 2-3 paragraph response on the factors that led to Europe’s global dominance in economic and political affairs? What impacts did that dominance have on other peoples and environments?

Construct an actual weather map by drawing isobars and fronts and labeling air masses and then portray weather conditions experienced on that day. Analyze an idealized weather map and describe current conditions at various locations.

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LAB 13-14

KEY LEARNING concepts After completion of this Jab, you should be able to :
Service of Canada (MSC) (http://weather.gc.ca/canada_e.html) to see current satellite images and to hear weather analysis. Internationally, the World Meteorological Organization coordinates weather information (see http://www.wmo.ch). Perhaps you are already working on the “Weather Calendar” assignment, gathering weather data and recording it in the proper form and with the official symbols used internationally.

In this exercise, we work with an actual weather map to better understand this important aspect of our daily lives. Lab Exercise 14 features two sections.
• Recognize the symbols used to depict weather conditions at stations on weather maps .
• Construct an actual weather map by drawing isobars and fronts and labeling air masses and then portray weather conditions experienced on that day.
• Analyze an idealized weather map and describe current conditions at various locations.